[Avodah] Letter of RSRH

[Micha Berger]

I feel a need to clear up RnTK's claims about what I said:

RSRH said nothing about today. End of story. What we can say is what
RSRH held about his own day. And that was pretty vehemently ANTI Zionist.

What would he have said if he lived? Anything.

He disagreed with most of the Agudah WRT TIDE. Maybe he would have
disagreed with post-Holocaust consensus. Maybe not. The assumption that
there is a single opinion of daas Torah that he would inevitably have
come to is inconsistent with the unique shitos he held in reality.

(This kind of da'as Torah doesn't exist, violates basic principles of
halakhahm denies that Beis Shammai produced gedolim, etc... It's an
absurdity not worth ascribing to RSRH.)

The Belzer Rebbe concluded that one of the things produced by the
Holocaust is that it was then possible for a Jew to die al qiddush
Hashem simply for being a Jew, his existential essence despite his
personal unobservance. And thus the provided a metaphysical mechanism by
which we could be brought one step closer to ge'ulah. A new definition
of Klal Yisrael.

Such an argument would distinguish between Austritt pre-Holocaust vs
more unity Kelapei Chutz post-Holocaust. Could RSRH have reached the
same conclusion? We'll never know. I'm just citing the Belzer Rebbe to
show how few givens in RSRH are really inherently unchangable.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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